ABSTRACT
THE Independence Demonstration, which be gan on March 1, 1919, was a passive one in the literal sense of the word It was “a great orderly demonstration by the people simultaneously all over the Empire, of their desire for freedom. There were no attacks on Japanese property or persons-simply a cessation of labour, and a gathering of the people for orderly demonstration under the catchword, Mansei. The Koreans, en masse, did not even try to retaliate when the Japanese attacked them. They used neither clubs nor weapons of any sort And it was against people like these-against pathetic dignity and high-mindedness in revolt that the Japanese retaliated with atrocities that rival those in Belgium and Armenia.”1
